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Advice on a [learning] JavaScript IDE?

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Edvard:
Well, if you're looking for something that helps you type the stuff out as you go, with code hints and colorized text, etc. then SciTe should fit the bill:
http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
It's got a JavaScript lexer, lots of autocomplete options, and best of all it's free (both ways).
Yes, it's a code editor, not a full IDE, but might be worth a look anyways.

EDIT:
Also, this is the first Google result for "Javascript IDE":
http://www.aptana.com/
Looks rather nice...

And NetBeans does javascript:
http://netbeans.org/features/javascript/

Or how about EditRocket:
http://editrocket.com/

P.S. I know nothing of Javascript, so any of my suggestions is likely to come from the "Oooh, look... Shiny!" camp, with the exception of SciTe.
That one I have actually used for AutoHotKey and Bash scripts, and it works well.

barney:
Thank you  :Thmbsup:.  Somehow - why am I not surprised  :-[ - I missed that.

There are three GitHub downloads:  jslint, adsafe.js, & json2.js.  Each is contained in a .zip file, with the only common file being named README - that file should be renamed to your preference for each of the .zips.  Apart from renaming the READMEs, everything works from the same directory.  Threw all files into a directory in the dev server on my laptop and it loads just fine.  Take a bit more work to see how well it performs.

barney:
Hm-m-m ... I remember bad experiences with SciTe a long time back.  Perhaps I should revisit it.

Aptana won't work - they cannot get Eclipse to install on their system - a problem I've had, as well, on various boxes.

NetBeans is another that I'd tried, to no good result, in the past.

EditRocket is totally new to me.

Looks as though my next few hours/days are gonna be busy  :o :  retry NetBeans & SciTe, check EditRocket  :'(.

Thanks for the references  :Thmbsup:.

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